It's a good thing I am so tired, because I am pretty pumped up about this win.

I don't think we could beat Orlando in a best of 7 or anything, but I am happy to see Q back to using the bench, sitting guys out, and the energy and passion of our 3 guards.

Bynum is just blood and guts. I couldn't believe when he hit those 3 jumpers, but even the moxie to go inside and foul out DHo after getting his eye poked.

He doesn't know when to quit going full throttle.

He might be the love child of Crash Mengelt and Allen Iverson. His crossovers on Nelson had me grinning ear to ear. At one point, he was so aggressive and determined to get to the hoop, everyone on the Magic was staring at him dribble and not at their own man.

Great win. It seems like I haven't seen a scrap and fight win like this in a number of years. Bynum was great down the stretch. Big Ben was vintage Ben (yet again). BG Hit tons of timely shots (those FT's are huge too!). Rodney carried us in the first half, and I love the 9 boards from a guard.

I do think we need to add some offense up front without question. The offense turns ugly when you've got Jerebko, Kwame, and Ben Wallace up front. All that can really happen is iso's from our guards for jumpshots.

One thing on Stuckey... Maybe he's not in great shape or just too big right now? A pattern is starting to develop. He'll have a great first half, then he has noticeably less lift in the 2nd half. Resulting in getting blocked more and having jumpers come up short. Maybe he's carrying too much bulk around trying to guard these little guys that it wears him down early? Just a thought.

You have to wonder if Tay had been there would he have slowed the game down more with his over dribbling and if had Max had played. how may rebounds would have he missed out on allowing the Magic to get second chance ops??

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Thats exactly what I was thinking. I mean it was tough to score without Rip but there was certain flow to the offense where they were not waiting for the defense to setup before making a play.

Great win. It seems like I haven't seen a scrap and fight win like this in a number of years. Bynum was great down the stretch. Big Ben was vintage Ben (yet again). BG Hit tons of timely shots (those FT's are huge too!). Rodney carried us in the first half, and I love the 9 boards from a guard.

I do think we need to add some offense up front without question. The offense turns ugly when you've got Jerebko, Kwame, and Ben Wallace up front. All that can really happen is iso's from our guards for jumpshots.

One thing on Stuckey... Maybe he's not in great shape or just too big right now? A pattern is starting to develop. He'll have a great first half, then he has noticeably less lift in the 2nd half. Resulting in getting blocked more and having jumpers come up short. Maybe he's carrying too much bulk around trying to guard these little guys that it wears him down early? Just a thought.

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Note that Stuckey played small forward in this game about half the time. (Most of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quarters.) Of course, thats still good rebounding for a small forward.

What a fun win! Solid defense up front and really aggressive guard play, I enjoyed watching this game a lot. Yes, Orlando missed some open threes that they could hit next time but that is the problem with three point shooting, sometimes they just don't fall.

- Ben Wallace is amazing and playing at a DPOY clip (yeah, I know, It's early). His numbers don't even show half of what he's bringing to this team.

- Weezy had a pretty "binary" looking stat line. Add to that, he doesn't even do the little things. I'll hold out until he has a larger body of work for me to judge but so far, I ain't impressed.

- Ben Gordon was the best "PG" on the floor last night. Aside from hitting his shots, he facilitated well had was prolly the only guy the swung the ball from side to side.

-The Pistons as a team only had 8 more assists than I did last night. This has a lot to do with Rip being out of the lineup as he's one of the only dudes on this roster that needs to be fed in order to eat. I can't remember a time when we had so many one-on-one guys.

- Props to Stuck for snagging 9 boards.

- Villan will come around. He looks out of sync on offense but that'll happen when you miss the pre-season. As soon as he gets better - the team will get better.

- What the heck is the deal with J-Max not getting any run. Weezy was stinking up the joint and prolly shoulda got yanked for Maxiel. ...Might have something to do with the "Brandon Bass factor".

- Gutsy effort by Will [STRIKE]Blalock[/STRIKE] Bynum. Dude didn't pass the ball once the entire game but still had a good one.

- Aside from being a heluva defender, Ben Wallace gets calls. The refs seem to respect his hard work.

I stand corrected...never count out the Pistons for playing down to the competition and up for the real competition. We didn't need no stinking Rip...to win this..Just needed some tough players to fight out a tough win by doing as much one-on-one as possible such as Will and Rodney who took 35 of our 72 shots..and only allowed our best and highest paid shooter Ben Gordon to take 10 shots...

You have to wonder if Tay had been there would he have slowed the game down more with his over dribbling and if had Max had played. how may rebounds would have he missed out on allowing the Magic to get second chance ops??

Let's also thank Villanueva and Wilcox for leaving Ryan Anderson open enough to allow him to shoot eleven three ball attempts and miss ten of them. Every time he shot we were able to not only dodge a bullet, but grab a long rebound and race down to the other end.

It was ugly without you Rip, but a beautiful win !!!!

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Trade prince, max anD stuckey for Stoudamire and their back up point guard,Drajic.

I was thinking the same thing, with Rip and Tay out, the old core was completely gone and we saw the true next-generation Pistons. It sure is fun to speculate about whether Tay and Max might actually be getting ready to be traded (I'm not so sure), but even cooler is to see how well our new guys CAN play.

By the way people, don't come in all doomy and gloomy when we lose but then when we win say that you're excited to watch the team no matter what. It's so LAMO!!!!!

Best thing so far is the complete lack of whining and complaining to the refs. Of course we were getting some calls, but this seems to be a trend this year. Of course not having RIP and Tay on the court helps this tremendously. Go out an play, finally.

- Ben Wallace is amazing and playing at a DPOY clip (yeah, I know, It's early). His numbers don't even show half of what he's bringing to this team.

- Weezy had a pretty "binary" looking stat line. Add to that, he doesn't even do the little things. I'll hold out until he has a larger body of work for me to judge but so far, I ain't impressed.

- Ben Gordon was the best "PG" on the floor last night. Aside from hitting his shots, he facilitated well had was prolly the only guy the swung the ball from side to side.

-The Pistons as a team only had 8 more assists than I did last night. This has a lot to do with Rip being out of the lineup as he's one of the only dudes on this roster that needs to be fed in order to eat. I can't remember a time when we had so many one-on-one guys.

- Props to Stuck for snagging 9 boards.

- Villan will come around. He looks out of sync on offense but that'll happen when you miss the pre-season. As soon as he gets better - the team will get better.

- What the heck is the deal with J-Max not getting any run. Weezy was stinking up the joint and prolly shoulda got yanked for Maxiel. ...Might have something to do with the "Brandon Bass factor".

- Gutsy effort by Will [strike]Blalock[/strike] Bynum. Dude didn't pass the ball once the entire game but still had a good one.

- Aside from being a heluva defender, Ben Wallace gets calls. The refs seem to respect his hard work.